85xx FDT updates?

[Eugene Surovegin]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:29:34PM -0500, Brent Cook wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 April 2006 13:24, Eugene Surovegin wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:14:55PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > >What you will end up with is that that small amount of embedded people
> > > >who bother to contribute something back will stop doing this. We are
> > > >more than capable of maintaining our internal kernel trees :).
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what to say to this.  Things need to move forward at
> > > some point.
> >
> > I don't see how removing features and breaking compatibility with
> > almost _all_ current embedded PPC boards boards is "moving forward".
> > Enlighten me, please.
> >
> > > I still not clear as to what exactly you are advocating
> > > beyond that we should keep the arch/ppc code around for ever.
> >
> > Providing compatibility for non-flat-tree firmware. This doesn't mean
> > keeping arch/ppc.
> 
> Would it be possible to create the device tree in the kernel and then jump 
> into the normal entry point? We need some sort of translation shim between 
> the normal kernel and whatever oddball method firmware X chooses to hand-off 
> to the kernel.

Yes. This was suggested numerous number of times. Kumar, for some 
reason which I don't understand, keeps ignoring this.

And yes, I think person who breaks compatibility is the one who should 
be doing this work :).

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